Author: HYMANS, JACQUES LOUIS
Title: Leopold Sedar Senghor an Intellectual Biography
Description: Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1971. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with a LONG inscription on the title page. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is clean and bright. "Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician of Négritude. Senghor was a proponent of African culture, black identity and African empowerment within the framework of French-African ties. He advocated for the extension of full civil and political rights for France's African territories while arguing that French Africans would be better off within a federal French structure than as independent nation-states. Senghor became the first President of independent Senegal. He fell out with his long-standing associate Mamadou Dia who was Prime Minister of Senegal, arresting him on suspicion of fomenting a coup and imprisoning him for 12 years. Senghor established an authoritarian single-party state in Senegal where all rival political parties were prohibited. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: Politics Jacques Louis Senegal, West Africa Signed Edition Theology Presidents Africa


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